What is your favourite bird song

[PickledMuffin]

I'm in the UK but mine is the blackbird. What's yours? Any Non-UK i'll gladly Google to hear!

Thanks 😊

Lol came on to say blackbird! I love curlew and lapwing but wouldn't count it as a song.

Swallows - or swifts? I always get them mixed up! I'm in Spain, they're circling now, great clouds of them!

Also yellowhammer 'little piece of bread with no CHEESE' !

And the Blackbird. And the jackdaw... And crows! Remind me of my old school.

blackbird
goldfinch
cuckoo
swift

Not sure which, but we have one outside our window that seems to be saying ‘The Arsenal’. Not great as a Spurs supporter

Coal tit. So joyous, always makes me smile.

Skylark. Love most bird song, but the skylark always takes me up into the clouds with him when he sings.

Nightingale - only heard one a few times.
Cuckoo - increasingly rare but so lovely to hear as a herald of summer
Swifts - screaming acrobats
Woodlark - repeats phrases like a Songthrush

Robin.

Swifts, screaming acrobats!! love it.

i've never heard a nightingale, would love to though ❤️

Flamingo

The blackbirds by me sing ‘Barbie Girl’, ‘Go Compare’ (complete with operatic trill) and the beginning of Mendelssohn’s Fourth Symphony.

They make me smile and groan in equal measure.

The songthrush is beautiful 🎶

I love a blackbird .
But when I hear a wren really singing...that's my favourite.

The Australian magpie, the one birdsong I would miss if I lived elsewhere.

In my garden I love listening to the blackbird, the song thrush, the wren (which is so much louder than its size would suggest) and also the house martins, who nest outside my bedroom window and chatter away amongst themselves.

NightJars.

We go somewhere to listen to them one evening every summer. When they are all out doing their call it is specular. The frog sounds and clapping their wings, amazing.

You have to get the right time of year, though.

Agree re Nightjars. Only found out what they were from the Merlin app.

Also the blackbird’s song is beautiful.

i’d urge anyone to download the Merlin app and get out there listening!

Goldfinch

@Mygazpachoistoocold it's the call of a mistlethrush; our owl is a tawny.
Thank you so much. I shall enjoy the app hugely.

For me it depends on the time of year as the birdsongs associate with change (for me at least).

Now it is summer, I love the curlews and skylarks, Spring brings the cuckoos and wakes up the garden birds, Autumn is when I seem to hear the most owls and the migratory birds.

The Merlin app is great and this site is also useful:

https://www.british-birdsongs.uk/

Skylark, I was lucky enough to have one in the field behind my garden last summer, close enough to see and singing very loudly on more than one occasion. I think I heard a distant song from one earlier this week, so I am crossing fingers that there’s one about and I will hear it soon.

After many years of enjoying hearing the spring call of the cuckoo, I haven’t heard a cuckoo at all this year.

Oh I'm so pleased the app was useful. I haven't heard our owl recently, but as soon as I do I'll be recording it!

Definitely a wren 😊

swift
wren
yellowhammer

Skylark
Song Thrush
Goldfinch
Robin

I also love hearing gulls